“Understated and raw, his songs are laid-back,” observed a reviewer for
MilesOfMusic.com, “but Walker adds an edge of desperation in a breathy
rasp
that is similar to E of The Eels or fellow Bay Area band The Mother
Hips.”
Still, the writer also called Landed “the perfect soundtrack for a very
lazy
Sunday afternoon.” This owes not only to Walker’s gift for
under-the-skin
melodies but to acclaimed producers Joe Chiccarelli and Tony Hoffer and
the
musicians who helped craft this musical photo album:
guitarist-keyboardist
Jay Bennett from Wilco, drummer Joey Waronker (R.E.M., BECK) and
bassist
Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck); Walker sang and played guitar, bass,
keyboards
and percussion.
Landed is a handful of Polaroids, still drying, fanned out to reveal a
cast
of shadowy characters, some real, some imagined, some Walker, some not.
Most long for solid footing atop ever-shifting ground. They seek
connection
but remain separated - by distance, by drugs, by dysfunction.
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